Asda Kwik Cricket County Finals Day ñ this Sunday at St Lawrence

FOLLOWING on from the successful staging of our two summer concerts, Kent County Cricket Club hosts the Asda Kwik Cricket County Finals Day this Sunday, 05 July. More than 150 year-six children will take part on the day, all hoping to earn a place in the regional finals.

The Kent Cricket Board is heading up the competition and Lead Organiser, Heidi Coleman, is anticipating a fantastic day of kwik cricket: “It should be tremendous fun once again this year. Kent runs one of the largest competitions, throughout the country, with around 32 festivals feeding into the County Final. Hopefully we will spot some talented youngsters, who will go on to serve Kent in the years to come.”

Thanks once again go to Asda, who are the main sponsors of the event, and the Kent Sport Development Unit, who are helping us again this year.

The 2009 finalists are as follows:

Ashford– Egerton C.E. Primary School
Bexley – Old Bexley
Bromley– Pickhurst Junior School
Canterbury – Herne Bay Juniors
Dover – River Primary School
Gravesham & Dartford – Knockhall CP School
Greenwich – Deansfield School
Lewisham – Edmund Waller Primary School
Maidstone – East Farleigh Primary School
Medway– Balfour Primary School
Sevenoaks – Horton Kirby Primary School
Shepway – Sandgate Primary School
Swale – Minterne
Thanet – Palm Bay Primary School (TBC)
Tonbridge & Malling – Woodlands Primary School
Tunbridge Wells– St John“s Primary School

Things will get underway this Sunday at 10am and finish around 4pm.

Kent Cricket Board“s Director of Cricket Development, Jamie Clifford, added: “Once again it has been another fantastic summer for Kwik Cricket competition. Over 450 schools have taken part, from right across the county, and the competition does so much to introduce cricket to a new generation. Let“s hope the sun shines on Sunday and that we enjoy some terrific matches.”